How do I use ITunes on my laptop with 2 different accounts and keep music etc separate

We have one lap top and now have 2 separate ITunes accounts. We want our own (different) music on our own devices. How do we keep music library separate? Until now it was just one library, but we have downloaded from CD's my husbands old county music (loaded outside of iTunes into folder on desktop). But ifnitnis imported it will show up in the main iTunes. How do we keep things separate? Too bad you can't have multiple iTunes downloaded, or can you for separate accounts?

There's a few ways of managing multiple devices (and keeping seperate content on each). The following document is worth checking through:
How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer

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